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Francisco Martin is a Swiss-born Spanish investment banker. His investment activity concentrates on venture capital and private equity stage opportunities and investments in middle-market companies.

Investment History
Martin is a principal of MK Capital Partners, a private equity and consulting firm where he is founder. He has invested in financial services, entertainment, bio-tech, high-tech and real estate ventures since 1998. He has invested and founded several investment management companies, investment banking firms and a mortgage bank.

He is actively involved with many Global businesses in need of restructuring and investment capital.

Banking Career
Martin started his banking career in Zurich in 1996 with Union Bank of Switzerland and later joined SBC Warburg Dillon Read in Zurich as an equities trader. In 1998 Martin joined the Julius Baer Group and was instrumental in opening the San Francisco branch and attracting high technology deals and client to the Swiss private bank. At 24, he was promoted Vice President, then one of the youngest ever promoted in the bank's history.

Later Martin founded MAM Group and MAM Wealth Management, a Los Angeles based broker dealer primarily launched to securitize mortgages produced by MCCA (Mortgage Capital Corporation of America), a wholesale mortgage bank he founded.

In 2007 he founded MK Capital Partners, an investment banking firm he founded to address the need and lack of capital of early-stage companies in sectors such as real estate, bio-tech, high-tech, entertainment and financial services. The company also offers consulting to companies on a Global basis.

Entertainment Investments
Martin is currently working with a group of investors to setup a micro-budget film financing company. In the past one of his entertainment related investments included 3M Entertainment, a music label, which produced platinum selling rapper Lil'Zane.